All 6 Uses of
profess
in
Jane Eyre
- This passion Celine had professed to return with even superior ardour.†
Chpt 15 *
- She had obviously not heard anything to her advantage: and it seemed to me, from her prolonged fit of gloom and taciturnity, that she herself, notwithstanding her professed indifference, attached undue importance to whatever revelations had been made her.†
Chpt 18
- "I see no enemy to a fortunate issue but in the brow; and that brow professes to say, — 'I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do.†
Chpt 19
- Mr. Rochester professed to be puzzled.†
Chpt 24
- — no professed harlot ever had a fouler vocabulary than she: though two rooms off, I heard every word — the thin partitions of the West India house opposing but slight obstruction to her wolfish cries.†
Chpt 27
- Of Mr. Rochester's character I know nothing, but the one fact that he professed to offer honourable marriage to this young girl, and that at the very altar she discovered he had a wife yet alive, though a lunatic.†
Chpt 33
Definition:
-
(profess) to claim (openly state) -- sometimes insincerely